The posters, written in Yiddish, tell women to avoid wearing tank tops, T-shirts, and clingy dresses.

Ban: The posters telling women to dress modestly have appeared all over Williamsburg

New Yorkers have responded furiously to Rabbis' demands. Wpix.com spoke to one Williamsburg woman wearing yellow short shorts and a T-shirt who said: 'Now they are telling us what to wear? This is New York.'

As the state has been gripped by a heatwave over past days, many New Yorkers had been seeking to shed even more clothes.